MANNING, John, Jr., a Representative from North Carolina;
born in Edenton, Chowan County, N.C., July 30, 1830;
attended Edenton Academy, the Norfolk Military Academy, and was graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1850;
studied law;
was admitted to the bar in 1853 and commenced practice in Pittsboro, Chatham County, N.C.;
delegate to the constitutional convention in 1861;
enlisted in the Chatham Rifles in 1861;
was made first lieutenant, later becoming adjutant of the Fifteenth Regiment, North Carolina Volunteers, and served throughout the Civil War;
elected as a Democrat to the Forty-first Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John T. Deweese and served from December 7, 1870, to March 3, 1871;
was not a candidate for reelection in 1870;
member of the State constitutional convention in 1875;
member of the State house of representatives in 1881;
commissioner to codify the laws of the State in 1881;
professor of law in the University of North Carolina and member of the board of trustees of that institution 1881-1899;
died in Chapel Hill, N.C., February 12, 1899;
interment in Episcopal Churchyard, Pittsboro, N.C.